US bans former Sudan security chief Ghosh over 'torture'

Salah Ghosh, pictured in 2013, was credited with building Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service into one of the most powerful security agencies of Omar al-Bashir's regime. [AFP]

Washington accused the former head of Sudan's feared security service of torture on Wednesday and barred him from entering the United States.

Salah Ghosh headed the African country's National Intelligence and Security Service until he resigned in April this year, two days after a military council took power and ousted the country's president Omar al-Bashir after months-long citizen protests.